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I do a lot of crazy shit...
I quit my job when my boss offered me a promotion to build businesses that challenge social norms (maybe this one is normal for this forum). I spend 2 years traveling around the country. I spend weeks with spiritual gurus who taught me how to create my future with my mind. I work with leading researchers in neuroscience and psychology. I spend my time with Animal Rights Activists. I lived in a house with 18 year hold hippie girls for 3 months. And today, I topped the list.
Today, I joined a friend when he invited me to go dumpster diving...
His role: Jumping in dumpster and finding things.
My role: Take lots of pictures, hope nobody is watching us, and have a heart attack when he pulls out a Macbook Pro from the bottom of a dumpster.
My friend Scott has been dumpster diving for 10 years now, and he says every single day, there are $10,000 worth of things throw away in dumpsters in Boulder, Colorado alone.
Last year, his friend found a $24,000 gold rolex. He found 2 pounds of marijuana last year, and last week he invited me to go dumpster diving with him.
I went out to dinner with my girlfriend, and spent $46 on an awesome Italian dinner and drinks. When I got home, he found a brand new pair of snowboard bindings, with the receipt - bought for $200. He flipped it on Craigslist for $150
Things to know - in college towns - the kids throw away anything and everything they don't want to take home with them. In boulder, these 2 weeks are when college students move out of their apartments and into new ones.
A lot of stuff gets thrown away.
Macbook, which is being sold on craiglist for $400. One of the wires was unplugged inside of it, so the person threw it away. Scott plugged in the wire and it works fine.
$500 worth of guitars
$100 Nikon
Camping gear and two GPS'
Last week, he found about $4,000 worth of tents thrown away in a commercial dumpster behind an outdoors store - because some of the poles were missing and they couldn't sell them.
The process:
1. Go to dumpsters near apartment complexes when students move out.
2. Go through dumpsters and find the things they throw away. I personall threw away a lot of things I didn't want to take with me when I move.
3. Sell items at thrift shops, ebay, or craigslist to turn a profit.
Picture of Scott selling items on a Mac computer (Which he actually found in a dumpster last month)
I quit my job when my boss offered me a promotion to build businesses that challenge social norms (maybe this one is normal for this forum). I spend 2 years traveling around the country. I spend weeks with spiritual gurus who taught me how to create my future with my mind. I work with leading researchers in neuroscience and psychology. I spend my time with Animal Rights Activists. I lived in a house with 18 year hold hippie girls for 3 months. And today, I topped the list.
Today, I joined a friend when he invited me to go dumpster diving...
His role: Jumping in dumpster and finding things.
My role: Take lots of pictures, hope nobody is watching us, and have a heart attack when he pulls out a Macbook Pro from the bottom of a dumpster.
My friend Scott has been dumpster diving for 10 years now, and he says every single day, there are $10,000 worth of things throw away in dumpsters in Boulder, Colorado alone.
Last year, his friend found a $24,000 gold rolex. He found 2 pounds of marijuana last year, and last week he invited me to go dumpster diving with him.
I went out to dinner with my girlfriend, and spent $46 on an awesome Italian dinner and drinks. When I got home, he found a brand new pair of snowboard bindings, with the receipt - bought for $200. He flipped it on Craigslist for $150
Things to know - in college towns - the kids throw away anything and everything they don't want to take home with them. In boulder, these 2 weeks are when college students move out of their apartments and into new ones.
A lot of stuff gets thrown away.
Macbook, which is being sold on craiglist for $400. One of the wires was unplugged inside of it, so the person threw it away. Scott plugged in the wire and it works fine.
$500 worth of guitars
$100 Nikon
Camping gear and two GPS'
Last week, he found about $4,000 worth of tents thrown away in a commercial dumpster behind an outdoors store - because some of the poles were missing and they couldn't sell them.
The process:
1. Go to dumpsters near apartment complexes when students move out.
2. Go through dumpsters and find the things they throw away. I personall threw away a lot of things I didn't want to take with me when I move.
3. Sell items at thrift shops, ebay, or craigslist to turn a profit.
Picture of Scott selling items on a Mac computer (Which he actually found in a dumpster last month)
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